Replace:

Google -> degoog.org

YouTube -> Grayjay

Android -> iodéOS/LineageOS/Graphene (any de-googled Android with microG on it)

This is just my preferred replacements, people never do and never will agree on what is the best way to go. Any progress is still progress though :)

Noone commenting on the impossibility of winning a round of tetris?

Noone has ever won a round of tetris.

A computer once figured out how to delay defeat indefinetly, but noone has ever won 😄

This might not help a lot but here is my FW13 story.

I got it somewhere around 2024/2025 and the battery life was very bad. Like a couple of hours tops.

I was sad, but lived with it for a while.

Then when I started using NixOS (love it) the battery life improved dramatically.

I think it is because I configured some Framework-hardware-specific configuration thingy that was made for the device.

So making sure you have the right firmware or whatever really does change a lot.

I don’t think it’s even close to 18 hours, but it is way better than before.

Also, setting the screen to 60hz instead of 144hz might save you some battery.

Good luck!

I’ve been running Linux on a 1070 Ti for at least 5 years now and I have no driver issues.

Most distros figure that out by themselves.

If you pick a hands-on distro, expect to be hands on, but if you want stuff to just work, there are distros that make it just work.

The drivers may not be super fresh, but that would be unreasonable to expect of a GPU released 9 years ago. But it still runs the games I need it to.

We don’t want that here either.

A 9° increase will fuck us and our surroundings over just as well as anywhere else.

Battleships 2 Electric Bogaloo

Yeah I’ve had real trouble learning to use Darktable.

It is not really straight forward off the bat, but once you get used to it it is really good 👍👍

Didn’t watch the video, but I want to give Darktable a recommendation 👍 Great photo editing software!

Could it be good ole gravity? Growing too far out from the wall to support their own weight properly?

Streamlining the game, I like it!

Could mean great savings for team owners. Now they only have to pay one player.

According to Blue Systems employee Aurélien Gâteau, “Blue Systems does not have a business model, at least for now”.

Nice

You’re supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.

Games evolve over time. Get with it or get behind.

Digital signatures might be required to prove your age. Then spoofing won’t do the trick.

I hope I’m wrong though.

Yeah, same to you!

I don’t like having to configure every detail of my computing experience. I like to be able to do so though. And that’s part of what makes me love NixOS. Most things can be enabled with a service.<whatever>.enable = true and it is installed and set up with very sane defaults. Essentially what other maintainers do, only that you had to decide you wanted that service to begin with.

And for boring stuff like networking or whatever, I haven’t made many desicions my self. That just came with the default config from my base install. I brought them with me as I evolved it, and as long as I don’t need anything else, I won’t be changing it either.

But yeah, I very much understand why someone would not want to use NixOS. It is great for those who like it and hell for those who just wants a set and forget system :)

Yeah, you have to define this stuff somewhere. But changing from one to another is simple.

This is my audio setup right now:

  services.pulseaudio.enable = false;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
  };

I will just keep rolling this until it constrains me somehow and then I will revisit it and improve it to fit my needs.

If you like NixOS, this is not a big burden really. Otherwise you are probably better off with some other dist, as you mentioned.

I don’t see it as a big tradeoff, but that’s because I like this way of doing things.

I game on NixOS, ask me anything and I’ll do my best to answer :)

To answer if NixOS is immutable, kind of yes if you want it to be immutable.

It can really be whatever you want it to be. If you:

• Use flakes and
• Keep your config in Git

Your system is pinned and reproducible.

Applying the same config on any other system would result in the exact same setup. All around.

When you want to update, you update the inputs to your flake, rebuild your system and switch into the new build.

If everything is good, you commit the updated flake file and any other system can pull it to update to the exact same config state.

It is magic and cool!

Also, if you want, it can be the complete opposite.

You can switch from the stable channels (new releases bi-annually) to the unstable channel (rolling release) and configure auto-updates.

Now you have a bleeding edge system that updates daily.

It is so cool.

I get that there is a lot of terms and stuff that is unclear, but it’ll all clear up once you get into it :)

But yeah, it is a OS that revolves around config files and kind of “coding” your own system.

If that sounds like fun to you (I love it) give it a try! If that sounds daunting, maybe stick with Bazzite, CachyOS or something easy to use. NixOS is easy to work with once you get it, but so is rocket science I guess.

I am rambling. Give it a try! Or don’t! 😄

I am going to migrate our living room gaming PC, my Raspberry Pi and my server machine to NixOS once I get the chance to.

This is my Linux endgame. I am not going back from here 😄

NixOS is not really a distro like other distros. It is more like a framework of creating the perfect custom distro that fits YOU.

If you’ve read this far, you’re a champ 🙏

Situations like these are the strength of the fediverse. Move your account to an instance that shares your values or doesn’t care about stuff like this.

Maybe you shouldn’t even have had your account on the largest server to begin with?

Edit: Didn’t mean to ridicule any of you all. I based my comment on my experience when I signed up. At that time there were plenty of instances to pick from and getting approved at my instance of choice was very quick. My bad.